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"He has lied to the American people, time and again, and betrayed their trust. He is no longer an effective leader. Since he has admitted his guilt, there is no reason to put the American people through an impeachment. He will serve absolutely no purpose in finishing out his term; the only possible solution is for the president to save some dignity and resign."
-Bill Clinton, 1974
Looking across the Bridge To The 21rst Century
Founding Fathers
and Other Patriots
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyrany over the mind of man."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong."
"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: (1)Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. (2)Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist; and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves."
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
"I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." (In a November 2, 1800 letter to Abigail Adams.)
"My views...are very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions...I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others..."."
"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
George Washington
(1732-1799)
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics."
"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and to humbly implore his protection and favor."
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
"The used key is always bright."
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.""
"Without justice, courage is weak."
"God helps them that help themselves."
"Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that "except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel."
Patrick Henry
(1736-1799)
"That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other." (Virginia Bill of Rights)
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here."
"We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power...The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
"If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable priviliges for which we have for so long been contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be attained-we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must FIGHT! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us."
"It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. The gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! but there is no peace. The war has actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the crash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848)
"Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation."
James Madison
(1751-1836)
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
Daniel Webster
(1782-1852)
"Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion...They sought to incorporate it's principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary."
"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."
"Good intention will always be pleaded for every assumption of power."
Noah Webster
"The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859)
"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other."
Andrew Jackson
(1767-1845)
"One man with courage makes a majority."
Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson
(1824-1863)
"Fear God and no one else."
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